On a crazily warm and sunny Sunday we set out on several small missions.

First we planted out three prickly gooseberry bushes using most of our remaining store of manure – I dreamt of summer days spooning tart gooseberry fool out of glass dishes as we took tea in the garden.  But I am sure Jeremy has other plans for summer afternoons which involve less sitting and more digging.

Then we took the life buoy, a heavy stake and a sledgehammer down to the pond and knocked the stake into the heavy clay soil next to the fence.  I hope we never have to use the ring to rescue anyone

Then it was into a very warm poly tunnel to plant micro rows of carrots, turnips and small pots of radishes using the wonderful molehill earth that I collected from the field last week.  Thank you moles for producing such fine tilthed soil for planting.